There is much urgency to share my thoughts at this moment. My country has mananged to place certificates above knowledge when infact certificate serves only as an evidence of acquired knowledge. A WAEC certificate has somehow managed become more important than the mastering of the O'level curriculum. Someone was recently denied the collection of her original WAEC cert at the Ojo WAEC Branch because she was unable to write, "original copy collected by me". There are also reports that a recent univerisity graduate could not write "Cash Collected by Me" presumably at NYSC camp. Titles are another thing we Nigerians can't enough of. In my dear country, you better not refer to neither a Engineer as a Mister nor a Professor as a Doctor. You just might never graduate from that college. In this same country a person would prefer to be called "most senior superior excellent Bleep". I have actually seen Dr Pastor Bleep OON CON. The truth is that for most of us the titles are bigger than who we are, and our names are just Bleep's that mean little without titles and certificates.
Have you ever wondered why the likes of Mark Zukerberg, Bill Gate, Richard Branson, Albert Einstein, John D Rockefeller, Barrack Obama, Nassef Onsi Sawiris have no attachment to their names. And the likes of our Dr Goodluck Jonathan GCFR, Dr Mike Adenuga GCON, Alhaji Alike Dangote GCON, and even the renowned Professor Wole Soyinka all have titles on their names. We sould all understand that including Honourable/Senator in our names won't make us anymore valuable neither would including Ambassador in our names make us any more exposed. When we part with God's own earth, the world would celebrate millions of other Ambassadors, Senators, Doctors, Professors, and GCFRs.

Also, when we get to heaven God won't allow only pilgrims with J.P (Jerusalem Pilgrim, I only wonder who started this) into the kingdom. Neither will Allah allow only those with Alhaji/Alhaja (I wonder who started this too) into Al Jana. Both the white Christians and the islamic crusaders who brought these religions to us don't add these to their name.

And for us the next generation folks. I guess the older folks have rubbed on us. On LinkedIn and other social media platforms, you will be amazed at the lenght of some names. Names like: Adamu Ciroma Adekunle PMP CCNA ACCA ICAN HSE CCIE IWC... We should all remind ourselves that even though Bill Gate, Thomas Edison, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, etc might have written their fair share of exams, they never attached anything to their names. It would be wise to add more value than certifications to our names.

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Interesting ! Nigerians are "weirdly wired" .